The emergence of Mexican America : recovering stories of Mexican peoplehood in U.S. culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Rivera, John-Michael, 1969-
Imprint:	New York : New York University Press, c2006.
Description:	viii, 211 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Critical America
Subject:	Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity. Mexican Americans -- History. Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation. Mexican Americans. Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation. Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity. History.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5997932

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ISBN:	0814775578 (cloth : alk. paper) 0814775586 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780814775578 9780814775585
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-203) and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction "How Do You Make the Invisible, Visible?": Locating Stories of Mexican Peoplehood
1. Don Zavala Goes to Washington: Translating U.S. Democracy
2. Constituting Terra Incognita: The "Mexican Question" in U.S. Print Culture
3. Embodying Manifest Destiny: Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Color of Mexican Womanhood
4. Claiming Los Bilitos: Miguel Antonio Otero and the Fight for New Mexican Manhood
5. "Con su pluma en su mano": Americo Paredes and the Poetics of "Mexican American" Peoplehood
Conclusion: Recovering La memoria: Locating the Recent Past
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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